Sculpture
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Pixel Clouds by Daniel Arsham | Colossal
Delicate plastic sculpture work by artist Daniel Arsham . Though the web site labels the materials as “plastic” my hunch would be these are ping pong balls that have been dyed and somehow adhered into these incredible structures. (via ignant )Crayon Fire Sculptures by Herb Williams | Colossal
Artist Herb Williams is one of the only people in the world to have an account with Crayola. I imagine him whipping out his cell phone, speed dialing Crayola Headquarters and saying “I need 40,000 Screamin’ Greens and 20,000 Tickle Me Pinks. Tonight .”
Paper Mt. Hood | Colossal
This paper installation of Mt. Hood by Marisa Green and Peter Bogart was on display at Portland Paper City last month, held at Disjecta Gallery . Beautiful. And they didn’t even have to put a bird on it . See also Jed Heuer’s Paper Pendleton from the same show. Photos by Laura Jennings.
Korean sculptor Park Chan-girl constructs metal sculptures from thin metal layers he calls “sliced images” that resemble three dimensional topography charts. He also meticulously welds thousands of small steel nuts into a delicately textured skin, moulding it into human and animal forms. He received his BFA in Sculpture from Chungnam National University and his MFA in Fine Arts from KyungHee University and has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Korea and China. (via mu-um )
Sliced Image and Steel Nut Sculptures by Park Chan-girl | Colossal
Federico Uribe | Colossal
I am flabbergasted. Somehow in my ventures around the internet I have never stumbled onto the work of Federico Uribe . Born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1962, Federico Uribe lives and works in Miami. He uses thousands, nay, millions and billions of tiny common objects to create some of the most elaborate sculpture I have ever seen.Korean artist Yeong-Deok Seo creates imposing figurative sculptures using tightly knit configurations of welded bicycle chains and industrial steel chains. While impressive in their intricacy and the apparent skill required to create them, the artwork’s titles such as Infection – Anguish , Infection – Ego , and Addict , suggest the rippled surface created by the materials is not an arbitrary decision. These are figures of individuals in dispair, pockmarked with disease, the chains acting as a metaphor for the human condition. See much more of Seo’s work spanning the past several years here .
Figurative Sculptures Made From Tightly Welded Chains | Colossal
Frostbite | Colossal
Incredibly beautiful capture of a frozen statue. Spent twenty minutes trying to find the photographer with no luck. Anyone? (via fasels suppe ) Update: It’s by photographer Miika Järvinen , as part of this series . Unfortunately there’s not an easy way to browse it, but if you like barren icescapes, there’s some real gems. ( thnx, william!
Striking Gallery of Iconic Celebrities using Matchbooks | Helablog
Making you rethink the term’ playing with matches’, artist Mike Bell creates portraits of iconic celebrities on the packets, and then manipulates the matches to form hand poses. His sparky work includes John Lennon making a victory sign, Marilyn Monroe with diamonds on her fingers and Jack Sparrow with mini cutlasses. There are also sulphur versions of Elton John with his piano, Humphrey Bogart and Robert De Niro as Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle giving us the middle finger…and my personal favorite all four original members of KISS!
Yuki Matsueda
‘While most designers are busying adding more and more elements into their artworks, Japan-based Yuki Matsueda has, however, managed to let some elements escape from his art pieces. The result seems quite amazing… A vivid 3D image is successfully created and all the elements are believed to be more shocking than those stay still on paper.’
The answer to the title is NO. These images are from a project entitled “Devour” by Christopher Jonassen , which displays pictures of the bottom of worn-out frying pans.
Is this a New Planet? – Illusion - The Most Amazing Creations in Art, Photography, Design, Technology and Video.
Michael Murphy challenges the boundaries between the second and third dimensions in his art. What appears to be a painting is, in fact, a series of dissected layers, forming a figure when viewed from the right angle. His series, LOOK , forces the viewer to move around and observe each comprehensive piece from different perspectives. In addition to the optical illusions he creates, Murphy works in a variety of mediums that include multi-layered sculptures, nail portraits, wire sculptures, sound installations, and shadow portraits.